Births
- Mbongeni Ngema, a writer, lyricist, composer and director is born in Verulam
- 20 June - Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, artist, is born in Soweto
- 4 August - Gerhardus Christian Coetzee, the World Boxing Association heavyweight boxing champion, is born in Boksburg
- 23 September - Lulama Xingwana, politician
- 11 October - Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, artist is born in Johannesburg
- 3 November - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, politician
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)